National Alumni Association Names Award Recipients
The University of Alabama National Alumni Association recently named the recipients of the 2007 Distinguished Alumni Awards, 2007 Alumni Student Awards and 2007 Outstanding Senior Awards.
Awards & Honors
UA Law Alumnus Nominated as President-Elect of American Bar Association
H. Thomas Wells Jr., partner and a founding member of the Birmingham law firm Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., has been nominated as president-elect of the American Bar Association (ABA). Wells is a 1975 graduate of The University of Alabama School of Law.
Chemistry Professor One of Three in Nation to Receive Fulbright to City of Light
Dr. Kevin Redding, associate professor of chemistry at The University of Alabama, has been chosen as one of three scholars in the nation to receive a Fulbright Fellowship to Paris, France for the 2007-08 academic year.
Sarah Patterson Named 2007 Sayers Award Winner at UA
Sarah Patterson, associate athletic director and women’s gymnastics head coach at The University of Alabama, has received the University’s E. Roger Sayers Distinguished Service Award for 2007.
UA’s Rabel Receives Alabama Finance Association Outstanding Faculty Award
Dr. William Rabel, professor of insurance and financial services at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce, has been named recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award by the Alabama Finance Association.
UA Announces Winners of Student-Funded SGA Spirit Scholarships
Winners of scholarships funded by The University of Alabama’s SGA S.P.I.R.I.T. campaign were announced today during a celebration event at Gorgas Library. Six UA students, all first-generation college students, were selected to receive the awards funded by their fellow students. The SGA S.P.I.R.I.T. campaign asked students to donate $5 each to UA for “first-in-family” scholarships.
Creative Campus Awards Gala to Honor Top UA Performers
The University of Alabama Creative Campus Initiative will host the second annual Al Arts Award Gala May 3 in Morgan Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
UA’s CCBP Awards Program to Honor Campus and Community Partners
The University of Alabama Center for Community-Based Partnerships will hold its first honors luncheon Friday, April 27, at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Tuscaloosa, beginning at noon.
UA Action Card, Director Receive National Honors
The University of Alabama Action Card and director of the UA card program have been recognized recently with two national awards.
Grandmother’s Fight Against Cancer Inspires UA’s Truman Scholar, Crane Hill Senior One of 65 in Nation
Adam Harbison’s grandmother is a cancer survivor, and her battle has been one of the more dominant influences in his life. He first participated in the Relay for Life sponsored by the American Cancer Society when he was 10 to raise money to fight cancer, and he notes his chairmanship on the National Leadership Team for the American Cancer Society’s Colleges Against Cancer as one of his most significant accomplishments. He can now add another accomplishment.